Newspaper-file.



- NiE TATES FRANK o. BLAISDELL, on NEWTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO THE LIBRARY BUREAU on BOSTON, MASSACHSETTS;

NEWSPAP ER-FIL.

SPEC-IFIGAIION orming part of Lettezs Patent No. 646,259, dated March 27, 1906.

Application fi1ed March 25,1399. smn No.710,442; N model Be it knowh that I, FRANK C. BLAISDELL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Newton, connty of Middlesex, State of Massachusetns, have invented an Improvement in Newspaper-Files,of which the following description, in connection With the accompanying drawings, is a specification; 1ike letters on the drawings representng like parts.

This invention has for ifs object to provide an improved file for holding newspapers and eqnivalent periodicals or documents.

The invention resides in various featnres to be hereinafter set forth the same tending to make the file more simple, convenient, and acceptable for its intended purpose.

In the drawings, Figure 1, in perspective on a small scale, shows a file containing my invention as it will appear when holding one or more newspapers or pe1i0dicals. Fig. 2 is an enlarged face view of the file in Fig.'1, a part of the file in Fig. 2 being broken away t0 economize in space on the drawings; Fig 3, a cross-section taken on the dotced line 3 3, Fig. 2; and Fig. si, a perspective detail of one end of the flic; showing one means for loeking the end cap or closnre in position on the file.

Referring to the drawings, in the embodi ment of my invention here seleoted and shown cois a tubular file, preferably circnlar in crosssection, and it may be of metal or any other suitable matera]. For lightness and cheapness I have found bamboo or cane to be well adapted for this file.

The file is ciosed in snitable manner at its upper end, as by a spherical cap or member 29, and between its ends the said file is slotted or otherwise provided along one side with an opening 0 to receive the paper or pape1s to be held by the file. In the present embodiment of my invention this s1ot on Opening 0 does not reaoh entirely to the upper end of the file, but terminatcs short thereof, as best shown in Fig. 2, to strengthen the file and for1n a pr0per p0cket at the upper end thereof to receive the upper ends of the holders to be desoribed. The said slot, however, as herein shown, is extended completely to the lower end of the file, as best shown in Fig. 4;, and this lower open or s1otted end of the file is closed in suitable manne1g as by a c1osure or cap (2; which may be slipped over the lower end of the file and retained thereon, by a device hereinafter more particularly described.

I have shown in Fig 4 the cylindrcal case a as having in its lower endan L-shaped bayonet-slot adapted to receive the pin d upon the closure or cap which fits over the lower end of the case, and the pin extends into the sockered or chambered portion of the cap d, which receives the case a.

The L-shaped bayonet-slot opens into the elongaced slot 0, and upon the insertion of the cap the pin d Wi1l enter portion (1 Of the bayonet-s1ot by a very slight turn of the Cap; and will be afterward drawn back, so as to enter the portion (.1 of said s1ot, thereb sccnrely holding the cap in place.

The paper-holders proper are represented as consisting of round rods c, shown in Fig. 3 as being three in nnmber, and one of these rods is disposcd behind the other two.

In p1actice t0 file a paper one of the holders e, 0f which a snitable number will always be at hand, either kept within the file or cisewhere, will first be placed within the newspaper and preferably along the middle line of the inner file or pages thereof, so that the said paper Wil1 bang evenly from the said holder at both sides thereof, as With the ordinary paper-holder now in use. The cap (1 is then removed from the end of the file and the holder carrying the paper inserted throngh the s1ot into the file. The upper end of the holder,'which is left pr0jecting beyond the upper edge of the paper for the purpose, is pushed npwardly above the.upper end of the -slot and Within and is held by the incl0sed upper or pocketed end of the file, the holder being thereafter dropped who1ly or entrely within the s1otted file and the cap dreplaced npon the lower end of the file and oveflap ping or incl0sing the lower or projcting end of the holder, as shown in Fig. 2, precisely as the upper end is held by the c1osed upper end of the file. A qnarter-tnrn of the cap d serves to look the same by the means described. The ho1der for the paper is thns concealed Within the file-tube a, yet the projectng leaves of the paper Where they issue from the slot 0 are free to be turned freely back and forth, as desired, by the user of the file.

A great advauoage possessed by a file made in accordance With my invention is that the papers may be inserted singly, each without disturbing the paper previously filed, and may be filed so that upon taking up the papers for reading the same will be found in the order of their issue-that is, the holder nearest the left-hand edge of the slot 0 Will carry the latest issue of the paper, while the next issue will be carried by the next holder, and so on, the papers thus appearing in couscoutive order instead of one within another, as in the holders now most widely used for this purpose.

I am aware that; in is not new to provide a group of ho1ders in the form of sticks, eaeh 120 carry a newspaper independently of the others, With means for holding the opposite ends of the group of holders; but: in such devices the papers radiate in all directions, like the spokes of a wheel, and there is nothing to confine them in book form, so that they Will lie one over the other in such man ner that they can be readily referred 130 by the user.

In my improved device above described all the advanoages of a file provided wibh a series of independent holders for as many newspapers are obtained, yet the inclosing file-tube, with its slot, causes all the papers filed and held by all the holders to issue through the relatively-narrow 3101 and thus all in one direction, or one immediately over 01' parallel With another in book form, in which manne? they can most easily be referred to.

My invention is not limited to the particu- 1ar embodiment herein shown, as the same may be varied within the spirit and scope of my invention, as claixned.

IIaving described my invention, what I ciam, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, IS-

A device of the class specified consisting of a tu bular, longitudinal, cylindrical case or ho1der having a s1ot extending to the lower edge of the same and open au its lower end and closed at its upp'er end adjacent the uppar end of the case, the latter a1so having an L-shaped slot leading into the first-menhioned s1ot, a spherical cap closing the upper end of the case and constituting a handle, a second cap detachably fitted over the lower edge of the case or holderand provided with a pin extending into the chamber thereof and adapted to suceessively pass into the different parts of the L-shaped S101: thereby to retain the cap in place, anda series of.three rods located within the case and held therein by the caps and one of said rods being arranged behind the other two.

In Lestimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

FRANK C. BLAISDELL.

VVitnesses:

JOHN C. EDYVARDS, LAUBA T. MANIX. 

